St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-24
Great Interest Centering
About the Trial Of Editor
William O'Brien.
His Conviction Thought Nee
essary to Vindieate the
New Grimes Act,
And Consequently the De-
fendant May Be Railroaded
Into a Prison.
Bismarck's Quarter Century
as a Diplomat--General
Foreign News.
By cable to the Globe.

BY cable to the Globe.
LONDON, Sept. 23.-The trial of Editor
William O'Brien is the all-absorbing
topic of interest. 1t is the test case of
the new crimes act, and much depends,
both for England and Ireland, upon the
result of this case. Irishmen, especially
the leaders and members of the National
league, are watching every point of the
trial intently, for Mr.. O'Brien's fate will
undoubtedly be theirs, and the govern
ment supporters are no less eager to
learn the result of their new instrument
of questionable legality. The trial is
emphatically one-sided affair, and the
government will have it all their own
way. No accurate account of the
speech for which Mr.. O'Brien is ar
raigned exists, and, if the valiant orator
is convicted, it will be through the testi-
mony of incompetent witnesses.
THE ABSOLUTE UNFITNESS
of the government reporters is aptly il
lustrated in the instance of Sergt. Foley,
one of the officers on whose deposition
Mr.. O'Brien was arrested, swore to-day
at the trial that he wrote the words of
the speech in his memory. He had for
gotten to take his note book with him to
the meeting, and hence was obliged to
rely on his mental capacity for the
speech, and on the testimony of this
presumably predjudiced man Mr..
O'Brien if convicted and will have his
liberty sworn away. The majority of
the police reporters are illitterate and
are wholly incapable of rendering a
verbatim report of anything,
much less speech in which
much of the language used was
entirely beyond their mental caliber. 1t
is the opinion, nevertheless, that Mr..
ernment stands in peculiar position.
If they fail to convict this man they will
open the door to flood of invectiYe
which will be beyond the capacity of
their machinery to deal with. 1t will on
the one hand
PROVOKE THE FIERCE TAUNTS
of their enemies and their hatred for
arreSting a man against whom there
was not enough evidence to convict, and
on the other hand will give loose rein to
torrent of speech that the government
can neither stay nor mete out
punishment for The presence of the
troops and police at Mitchelstown to-day
preeluded the possibility of row, and
beyond a popular outburst of enthuSi-
asm there was no signs of a disturbance.
NIL. " DIlCu WdS GllG ISClplCllG VI dH
abundance of flowers and was treated
with loving attention by the people
whose hero he now is. Intense curioS-
ity is excited among the Tories over
the departure to America of Michael
Davitt. Some accuse him of cOwardice
in attempting to escape the conse-
quenceS of his recent speech at MallOw,
while others assert that the Nationalist
funds are low and that Mr.. Davitt has
gone to recruit them.
AT THE TRIAL.
OMITCHELsTowN, Sept. 23.-At the
trial of William O'Brien to-day, Tim
othy Harrington declared that deliber-
ate attempt had been made to suppress
Constable O'Sullivan's report of
O'Brien's speech. Mr.. Carson, prose-
cutting barrister, replied that the obser-
vation was pure fabrication on Mr..
Harrington's part. Mr.. Harrington,
greatly excited at this, exclaimed: "You
lie." Magistrate Eaton here in
terpoSed and said: Il can
not permit such remarks to be
made in the court. If you repeat them
you will be removed from the rOOm."
Mr.. Harrington retorted eXcitedly:
'sYou needn't trouble yourself, I'll re-
move myself. want nothing more to
do with this whole farce An excited
crowd followed the car in which Mr..
O'Brien was taken to court. They yelled
and hoOted at the police and soldiers,
who marched with fixed bayonets. Mr..
Dillon and some priests, however, kept
the people within bounds.